21 filings from 3 registrants · 2010–2014 · latest filed Dec 8, 2014
Reported on its behalf
$1.5M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$1.1M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$380K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: universal-technical-institute-inc.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
4 filings
$270K on those filings
Veterans
VET
3 filings
$290K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
112th Congress
Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013
2 filingsthrough 2011
H.R. 1473112th CongressDepartment of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 20112 filingsthrough 2011
S. 1297112th CongressA bill to preserve State and institutional authority relating to State authorization and the definition of credit hour.2 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2179112th CongressMilitary and Veterans Educational Reform Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2206112th CongressGI Educational Freedom Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2241112th CongressGI Bill Consumer Awareness Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1595113th CongressStudent Loan Relief Act of 20131 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 1716113th CongressExCEL Act of 20131 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 1876113th CongressStability to Ensure the American Dream for Youth Act1 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 1960113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20141 filingthrough 2014
H.R. 1979113th CongressBank on Students Loan Fairness Act1 filingthrough 2013
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
The Livingston Group, LLC
3 filingsthrough 2014
James GauthierThe Livingston Group, LLCCovered position: Fmr. Staff, Sen. Gregg3 filingsthrough 2014
